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8:00 PM ET, December 20, 2022

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the NFL is in advanced talks to give YouTube exclusive Sunday Ticket rights; a deal could be reached as early as December 21 after an NFL owner meeting  —  Agreement on the subscription package for most Sunday afternoon football games could be reached as early as Wednesday
Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: 9% of Netflix's US sign-ups in November were for its ad tier; ~57% of ad-tier subscribers were people re-joining or new signups, while ~43% downgraded  —  Streaming giant's ad-backed plan accounted for 9% of new signups in the U.S. in November, according to subscription-analytics firm Antenna
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter pilots Blue for Business with some accounts, helping publishers identify brands and key employees associated with them via badges  —  Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue.  At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses.
Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:
The UK's IPSO says Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column, where he said he “hated” Meghan Markle, received over 20,000 complaints, more than all the complaints in 2021  —  Ipso receives in excess of 17,500 objections to Sun article, more than the regulator received in the whole of 2021
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Insider Intelligence: Google will capture 28.8% of US digital ad revenue in 2022 and Meta will grab 19.6%, for a combined 48.4%, down from a 54.7% peak in 2017  —  Google and Meta, known together in the ad industry as the “duopoly,” are expected to bring in less than half of all U.S. digital advertising …
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Micah Lee / The Intercept:
About seven journalists, including Donie O'Sullivan and Steve Herman, remain locked out of their Twitter accounts, most until they consent to delete tweets  —  I've been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” hypocrisy and his censorship of left-wing accounts.
David Satin / The Streamable:
Ampere Analysis: the Disney Bundle is an effective tool against price sensitivity among users; almost 32% of Hulu's total users have bundled it with Disney+  —  Many have speculated that the way forward for an increasingly mature streaming market is aggregation.
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Nielsen: Fox News' The Five tops Tucker Carlson Tonight as 2022's most watched cable news show with ~3.4M viewers on average, a first for a non-primetime show  —  There is a new cable news ratings champion.  —  Nielsen data for 2022 rank the Fox News round table program “The Five” …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
ProPublica plans to return the $1.6M the outlet received from SBF's family foundation, setting aside the money until authorities decide where it should be sent  —  ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news outlet, will return the $1.6 million in funds it received from Sam Bankman-Fried's …
 
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Olivia Konotey-Ahulu / Bloomberg:
Sources: the Telegraph Group slashes paternity leave for UK staff from six months to two, citing “significant operational challenges” following the 2019 policy
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Sources: Vice Media expects to miss its 2022 revenue goal by over $100M, generating ~$600M, roughly flat compared to 2021, a blow as the company pursues a sale
Andrew Dalton / Associated Press:
Jurors find Harvey Weinstein guilty on three of seven charges of rape and sexual assault at the disgraced movie mogul's Los Angeles criminal trial
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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Tumblr adds support for livestreaming to its iOS and Android apps in the US; the service is powered by video platform Livebox, which lets users tip streamers
Discussion: Collider, Digital Music News and Tumblr
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube removes Pornhub's official channel, which gained nearly 900,000 subscribers over eight years, after Instagram permanently banned Pornhub in September
Discussion: Engadget
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Investigation: six Alabama and Florida outlets that attacked critics of power companies have financial ties to Matrix, a consulting firm the utilities hired
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The European Commission sends Meta a statement of objections for alleged antitrust breaches over tying Marketplace to Facebook and imposing unfair trading terms
Ben Smith / Semafor:
A profile of Bari Weiss, who recently co-founded The Free Press and who Elon Musk let nose around Twitter's internal docs but has since been blocked by him